Absolutely correct.
Harvesting extract?
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Yes but if you are trying to extract for purity and want your extract to be several million SHU you're going to have to use a volatile solvent. You can't evaporate off fats, which is why you can still spread it on toast. We're talking enough so a single drop placed in melted butter would make the toast practically inedible
Yes, more oils can be dissolved per liter in a butter or oil but some still dissolves in alcohol and other volatile solvents. The benefit of using alcohol is you can dissolve the oils from only a couple superhots in a couple liters of alcohol, then evaporate that off and be left with nothing but the oil. No extra fat, water, or anything really except a few other oraganic molecules that also got dissolved in the alcohol.
I was under the assumption that the main point of extracting the capsaicin would be to eat it, so that's why I thought of using butter. But my idea was to use a fatty phase to get more capsaicin in the idea that you would not need to dish out a big manufacturing cost. There are many ways to separate oils to get rather pure solutions. If you purely wanted 100% pure capsaicin, I would still use a fat phase to dissolve the capsaicin initially, and then use its melting point of approx. 65 degC to "freeze" it out of solution. Olive oil has a melting point of approx -6 degC so you could use a household freezer.
Its possible that won't work however, I would need to look up the activity coefficient of the mixture (or calculate it) to tell if the oil had a big binary interaction on the capsaicin. I believe this separation is by solid liquid extraction in the industry but that is only by my googling.
good find on that video, this is the apparatus i use. my endprocuct looked way different, like a dark red tar almost.
Shouldn't the fact that sugars are readily soluble in water and lipids are not make this a very easy thing to separate off? Add water, centrifuge or let settle, skim off the oils, then slowly boil off the excess water. Repeat if necessary.
you do this.
Awesome. I unfortunately don't have a several thousand dollar chem lab setup so I'd have to do something on a much cheaper and less efficient scale. Seems to me its easier to remove the sugar than to carry out the extraction process itself.
Thanks!
sep funnel is like 10 bucks
